Magnetic puzzle.



No. 678,608. Patented-July l6, I90l. J. L. WUULF.

MAGNETBC PUZZLE.

[Application filed May 81, 1901.\

(No Model.)

THE nonms PETERS cu. PNOYQ-LITHD,WI-SHINGTON, o. c.

llirnn STATES JOHN L. WOOLF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MAGNETIC PUZZLE.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 678,608, dated July 16, 1901. Application filed May 31, 1901. $erial No. 62,489. (N0 model.)

To ttZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN L. NVOOLF, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Magnetic Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a puzzle employing an ordinary needle as an armature in connection with a toy permanent magnet and whose solution depends on the removal of the needle from the interior of a closed box.

The novel features of the invention are hereinafter fully set forth, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box and a magnet, showing the position into which the magnet is to be brought when the needle is being withdrawn from the box. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, omitting the magnet. Fig. 3 is a top plan view showing separable parts of the box, together with the magnet, as the whole appears when packed for transportation. Fig. 4 represents a cross-section on the line 4 4c of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective View showing a box different in structure from that shown in the preceding figures. Fig. 6 is a like view showing a box similar to that shown in Fig. 5 and with a side pocket forming a receptacle for the magnet.

are marked with identical characters of reference.

A indicates the closed box, which may be rectangular, as shown, or of any other suitable shape, and B indicates a magnet adapted to cooperate with an armature in the form of a needle 0, resting loosely within the box. 1

In the example shown said magnet B is of horseshoe shape, but it may be of any other I One side of the box A is composed of a sheet A of transparent suitable configuration.

material, such as celluloid, surrounded by a suitable frame A, and hence the interior of the box is optically exposed through that side, and in another side A of the box is formed an aperture D, preferably round and of a suf- 1 ficient size or diameter to permit the armaf ture O to pass freely through it. llhe body 1 of said box, including the frame A, is composed of pasteboard or other suitable nonmagnetic material, and it will now be readily understood that if a pole of the magnet 13 is brought in contact with the outside of the box in proximity to the point at which the needle-shaped armature C may be located said armature will be attracted by the magnet and follow a path which the magnet may be caused to traverse upon the box, so that byaproper manipulation of both the box and the magnet the armature may be withdrawn from the box through the aperture D by the magnet.

In order to facilitate the transportation of the box A, I may construct the same, as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, in three parts or sections, marked, respectively, 1, 2, and 3, which are separable from each other, the part 1 constituting what may be termed the trunk of the box, and the parts 2 and 3 forming covers for the said trunk, one of said covers including the frame A for the transparent sheet A. The trunk-section 1 is made collapsible, and one of the edges of each of the cover-sections 2 3 is hinged, so as to fold inward upon its body, and hence if the trunksection 1 is flattened and the two cover-sections 2 3 are brought adjacent to each other with their said hinged edges folded, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, said trunk-section may be placed within said cover-section, with the of- In each of the figures corresponding parts fect of bringing the parts into a comparatively small space, adapting the same to be packed in a substantially fiat envelop.

In its flattened condition the trunk-section 1 forms a convenient receptacle for storing the magnet B when the latter is not in use, and in order to better adapt the trunk-section to this purpose two of its corners 4. 4 may be bent so as to heat right angles to the flat pane thereof, as more clearly shown in Fig. 4. The receptacle forthe magnet B, however, may be in the form of a pocket E at one side of the box A, as shown in Fig. 6.

If desired, the trunk section 1 may be gummed exteriorly at its opposite edges 5 5, Fig. 3, like an envelop, so that when the parts are set up to form the desired box the coversections 2 3 may be secured to the trunk-section by that means.

Having fully described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters M Patent of the United States by means of a magnet; substantially as described.

2. A puzzle comprising a closed box of nonmagnetic material and of rectangular shape, having one side transparent so as to optically expose its interior and having another side provided with an aperture and a needleshaped armature resting loosely Within the box, adapted to be withdrawn therefrom through the said aperture by means of a magnet; substantially as described.

3. A puzzle comprising a closed box of nonmagnetic material, having a transparent portion and an apertu red portion and constructed to form a storage receptacle for a magnet, and a needle-shaped armature resting loosely Within the box, adapted to be withdrawn therefrom, through its apertures by means of said magnet; substantially as described.

4. A puzzle comprising a box of non-magnetic material, constructed in three separable sections, one collapsible and forming a boxtrunk section, and the other sections forming covers, the said box having a transparent portion'and an apertured portion and containing a needle-shaped armature adapted to be withdrawn therefrom through its aperture by means of a magnet; substantially as de scribed.

Having declared the nature of my invention,I have signed my name in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN L. WOOLF.

Witnesses:

P. K. STERN, BENJ. BLATTERS. 

